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Canon Exceeded Sales Projections For its 2020 Fiscal Year
The success of Canon’s R5 and R6 mirrorless cameras have exceeded the company’s expectations and it has revised its 2020 fiscal year earnings over initial projections. The company logged net income of more than a quarter of a billion dollars in excess of its original...
Understand the difference between high and low key portraits and how to shoot them both
There seems to be a lot of confusion as to exactly what high and low key portraits are and the differences between them. At least, there seems to be whenever I spend some time browsing on social media. A lot of people seem to think that high key means “overexposed”...
Fujifilm Has Discontinued its Pro 400H Color Negative Film
Fujifilm has discontinued the Pro 400H film in both 35mm and 120 formats, citing the challenges associated with producing this particularly unique film. Announced on its website, the company cites the unusual fourth layer coating that makes the film challenging and...
Photographer 3D Prints Wet Plate Photos to Create ‘Touchable Bokeh’
Photographer Markus Hofstätter had been designing parts for his cameras and 3D printing them at home when the idea to try something new struck him: 3D printing photographs. After a lot of trial and error, he successfully found a way to translate wet plate photos into...
Canon lets you shoot photos from space with its new CE-SAT-1 microsatellite emulator
While Canon might’ve suffered something of a setback with the destruction of its CE-SAT-1B satellite last year, it does still have the original CE-SAT-1 flying over the planet, with plans to launch more. In the meantime, though, they’ve launched a new website that...
Nikon Professional Services Adds Two Paid Tiers to Membership Options
Nikon Professional Services has added two paid tiers above the complimentary Pro plan that add significant additional benefits for working photographers. Both new tiers include equipment loans, repair discounts, and cleaning services. Nikon’s basic, complimentary, Pro...
Fujifilm abandons PRO 400H film in both 35mm and 120 formats
Fujifilm has announced that it is ending production of both 35mm and 120 format versions of its PRO 400H colour negative film. In a notice posted to the Fujifilm website, Fuji says that it has become “increasingly difficult to procure the raw materials needed to...
Deciding Between Lightroom Classic and Lightroom
Back in October of 2017 the program once called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC 2015 was rebranded as Lightroom Classic. At the same time Adobe reworked what was previously just a mobile app called Lightroom Mobile into its own “ecosystem” that was designed to function...
Vaxis launches the Atom 600 KV video transmitter for the RED Komodo in Stormtrooper White
Vaxis recently launched their Atom 600 KV wireless video transmission system designed specifically for the RED Komodo. Now the company has announced that it’s also available in a new Stormtrooper White flavour, so that those who happen to have the white Komodo can...
Six Incredible Photos of Galaxies Colliding
As part of its celebration of a new year, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has published six different galaxy mergers. These rare astronomical phenomena were captured as part of a recent survey to investigate the rate of new star formations. As part of the release,...
Godox expands its range of zoomable Bowens mount LEDs with the new SZ200Bi
Only last month, Godox launched the first in their range of “SZ” zoomable LED lights, the SZ150R. This was also Godox’s first RGB Bowens mount LED. Now, they’ve followed it up, expanding the SZ range with a new SZ200Bi. As the name suggests, it’s a 200W bi-colour LED,...
Statement Signed by 600+ Photography Professionals Demands Accountability from Magnum Photos
A group of 647 photography students and professionals have together signed a letter demanding Magnum Photos actively participate in addressing sexual harassment in the industry, namely with regards to accusations made against its photographer David Alan Harvey. The...